Although bookmarking is commonplace in nearly every browser, the most avid news aficionados can certainly benefit from the extra features these apps offer.įor example, the best read-it-later apps allow you to tailor the experience to your liking by customizing font styles and sizes, as well as colors and themes. They serve as hubs for all the articles and links you’d like to set aside for future reading. I’m yet to find a simpler way of taking all your research and forging it into your own work.We’ve all been there: You see an interesting headline, but you don’t have the time to dig in. Hopefully, you don’t forget to look for it in the future - but even if you remember, tracking it down again could be tricky. Fortunately, there are read-it-later apps designed specifically for this problem. The best point about this app stack is that it’s frictionless and makes note-taking an absolute pleasure. There are plenty of other note-taking apps out there. He talks about how to take a vast volume of information and distill it into something you can use, at some point in time in the future. This has been inspired by Tiago Forte’s progressive summarization. You may also be interested in Is Notion Good For Note Taking? Final Thoughts Let your brain focus on the creative side of things instead of trying to recall that paragraph you read weeks ago! This helps me to create connections along the way, leaving me to focus on what’s important – writing the post! For example, when I’m working on a new blog post, I can add relations to the Readwise database. This will enable us to easily recall the information at a moment’s notice.Īgain, through the Connect & Sync menu in Readwise, click on Export Highlights.įrom here, you can enrich your notes by adding other pieces of research and linking them to other ideas you have pulled along the way. Next, we’ll import and categorize the notes in Notion. So we’ve read the article, saved the notes/highlights, and reviewed the notes. Readwise also has a handy Chrome extension where you can highlight a web page, right-click and automatically send it to Readwise. Kindle highlights, Twitter threads, or Airr notes (podcast listeners) to name a few. However, Readwise is able to aggregate quite a few other sources – e.g. You might be wondering why we don’t just go straight from Instapaper to Notion – well yes you can. Along with the review, it helps you remember this information by sending daily snippets via email or the app. Readwise is an app that captures all your highlights for review. Distill Your Notes With Readwise Readwise When it’s done, all the highlights you have made in Instapaper will show up in the Readwise library. In the Readwise dashboard, click on Import It’s very easy to connect Instapaper and Readwise. These highlights will make their way through the apps and land on an “Options Trading” page in Notion, ready for consumption when I look at it seriously. I’ve added the article to Instapaper and highlighted a few key concepts. I’ve recently come across an article on options trading which I may want to get into at some point. This is the first layer of information filtering and although it might not be needed at that point in time, it helps to create a central repository on said topic for me to access at some point in the future.įor example, I’m interested in financial markets and trading. Like when we were in school, I will take the opportunity to highlight passages that I think are useful and interesting. The offline reading function is handy for my commute too. It plays well with all of my devices and it syncs well with Readwise which I’ll cover in the next section.Īnother benefit of Instapaper is that it will get rid of all the ads on the article. There are a few “read it later” apps out there like Pocket, but I prefer Instapaper for its simplicity. Instead of leaving multiple tabs open on my phone, I save the article to Instapaper and save them for my commute or when I’m doing some reading in the morning or before bed. Usually, when I come across an interesting article or email, I won’t have time to read it all and highlight the interesting snippets. This helps me to collect various articles and emails and store them all in one spot, ready for consumption. The first app in this process is Instapaper. Sounds good? Then keep on reading! Collect Information Efficiently With Instapaper
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